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Lesley Garrett

"I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses."

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"I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses."

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"That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is."
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